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Arctic reindeer

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Arctic reindeer
Extinct (1900)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Genus: Rangifer
Species:
Subspecies:
R. t. eogroenlandicus
Trinomial name
Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus

The Arctic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus), also known as the East Greenland reindeer or Greenland reindeer was a subspecies of reindeer (or caribou), that lived in eastern Greenland. It has been extinct since 1900.

References

  1. ^ https://www.jstor.org/pss/1380173, American Society of Mammalogists, consulted on May 27, 2010.